Structural Design via Optimality Criteria: The Prager Approach to Structural Optimization

✍ Scribed by George I. N. Rozvany (auth.)

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1989
Tongue: English
Leaves: 487
Series: Mechanics of Elastic and Inelastic Solids 8
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

`This book can definitely be recommended to all those who are willing to immerse themselves in one of the most important areas of structural optimization,`
H. Eschenauer, ZFW Köln,1990
`Das Buch kann in jedem Fall all denen empfohlen werden, die bereit sind, sich eines der wichtigen Gebiete der Strukturoptimierung einzuarbeiten.'
Zeitschrift für Flug und Weltraumforschung, 14:1/2, 1990

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxvi
Introduction....Pages 1-20
Static-Kinematic Optimality Criteria....Pages 21-80
Optimal Plastic Design of Beams with Freely Variable Cross-Sectional Dimensions....Pages 81-114
Optimal Plastic Design of Beams with Unspecified Actions or Reactions....Pages 115-159
Optimal Plastic Design of Beams with Segmentation....Pages 161-204
Optimal Plastic Design of Beams: Allowance for Selfweight, Bounded Spatial Gradients (Niordson-Constraints) and Linear Segments....Pages 205-241
Optimal Elastic Design of Beams — Stress and Deflection Constraints....Pages 243-284
Optimal Elastic Design of Beams — Optimization of Segmentation, Constraints on Spatial Gradients (Niordson-Constraints) and Multicriteria Design....Pages 285-322
The Theory of Optimal Layouts and a Brief Review of its Applications....Pages 323-351
A Short History of Optimality Criteria Methods....Pages 353-368
Back Matter....Pages 369-465

✦ Subjects

Civil Engineering;Mechanics;Automotive Engineering;Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design

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